Guide to deploying and installing Plone in production

Description

A guide to the Plone deployment stack, including load balancing, proxy caching, server preparation, backups, log rotation, and process control.

This guide particularly focuses on Unix-like environments, though the stack discussion may be useful to everyone.

• Introduction
  • The purpose of this guide; its audience and assumptions
  • And, what about Windows?
  • Audience
  • Assumptions
  • Security considerations
• Background: the stack
  • Load balancing
  • Server-side HTTP caching
• Preparing the Server
  • Preparing to install Plone
• Starting, stopping and restarting
  • Starting and stopping Plone with the server
  • Process control with Supervisor
  • Cluster restarts
• Logs and log rotation
  • Log types and locations
  • Client log rotation
  • Error alerts
• Database packing
  • Setting up packing
  • The packing operation
  • Regular scheduling of packing operations
• Backing up your Plone deployment
  • Introduction
  • collective.recipe.backup
• Copying a Plone site
  • Introduction
  • Prerequisites
  • Plone site contents
  • Copying and bootstrapping a Plone site to a new computer
  • Copying site data in UNIX environment
  • Copy local to remote
  • Copy BLOB files using rsync
• WSGI
  • Introduction
  • Plone 4 and WSGI
• Zope Application Server
  • Introduction
  • Zope control command
  • Adding users from command-line (reset admin password)
  • Timezone
  • Log level
  • Creating additional debug instances
  • Virtual hosting
  • Import and export
  • Regular database packing
  • Copying a remote site database
  • Pack and copy big Data.fs
  • Creating a sanitized data drop
  • Log rotate
• Guide to Caching
  • plone.app.caching documentation
  • plone.app.caching
  • Varnish 3.x
  • Varnish 4.x
• Frontend Webserver
  • Apache
  • Nginx
• Production
  • Automatic Plone (re)starts
  • Tutorial: Installing Plone for Production on Ubuntu
• Testing & Tuning Plone
  • Testing and debugging
  • Performance and tuning